Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

The Second World War campaign group of five awarded to Captain B. L. Carnie, Merchant Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, these all late claims and officially impressed Australian-style, ‘B. L. Carnie, M.N.’, extremely fine

The Danish Medal of Freedom attributed to H. M. Carnie
Denmark, Medal of Freedom 1940-45, silver, in its A. Michelsen fitted card box of issue, extremely fine (6) £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Bruce Leslie Carnie was born in Gravesend, Kent, in October 1923, and first went to sea as an Apprentice in the S.S. Ettrickbank in September 1941, and ended the War as 2nd Mate of the Korailbank, having joined her in November 1943. Remaining in the Merchant Navy, he gained his Master’s Certificate and finally came ashore in the late 1960s. And he claimed his 1939-45 War campaign medals after moving to New Guinea.

H. M. Carnie received his Danish Medal of Freedom on 5 May 1946, but no further information is known, other than the fact he may have been entitled to the O.B.E.